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Cross-Section UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE CROSS-SECTION Issue No. 200 June 1, 1969 ¶ Camp Hill was recommended by the Joint Select and having a suitable environment for working staff. Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament They also admired the restrained use of the owner's House as the site for the new Parliament House and name on the building. It represents the first use in has been accepted by Parliament. Another supplemen- Australia of Aus-Ten 50 steel on the external struc- tary recommendation was that the summit of Capitol tural frame. The oxidation of this material as it Hill be reserved for "an architectural shaft or other matures creates a warm brown "which will blend in feature of a symbolic nature which would not compete with the semi-rural surroundings of the site". It has by reason of its mass, its form or its significance with a forceful and energetic form and proportioning on the Parliament building but, if possible, complement Miesian principles. Builder: A. V. Jennings Industries and enhance the building's appearance". A flagpole? (Aust.) Ltd. Structural Engineer: Irwin Johnston & A giant flagpole was recommended long ago by Sir Partners Pty. Ltd. Mechanical & Electrical Engineers: William Holford. The remaining question is what build- W. E. Bassett & Partners. Quantity Surveyor: Rider, ing appearance should the architectural shaft enhance? Hunt & Partners. Photo: Mark Strizic Photo: David Moore C-S celebrates its 200th edition by publishing the R.A.I.A. Victorian Chapter 1969 cited finalists for the Bronze Medal award. At the time of writing the Bronze Medal winner and other citation winners (architects and builders) were not available for publication. Some Photo: Mark Strizic of these prize buildings have already been reviewed The Fletcher house by architects Romberg and Boyd in this magazine. The National Gallery designed by was placed first in the Domestic category. Blank brick Sir Roy Grounds (see C-S Issue No. 191, Sept. '68) was walls are placed to a busy street and western sun. first in the General category, the Awards Committee The exposed steel roofed skillions differentiate in commenting that this is the only monumental building external appearance the three blocks of separated established in Melbourne since the Shrine of Remem- functions: living/dining wing, bedroom wing and guest brance was built after a design competition in the wing. Each wing has its own courtyard and they are 1920's. Another favourable point mentioned was that linked by glazed galleries to a treble carport. The the project management control enabled it to be interest in the design here is in its picturesqueness. completed on schedule within the designated cost Owner/builder: Mr. Norman Fletcher. structure. Illustrated is the Bamboo Garden, one of The City of Malvern Harold Holt Memorial Pool (see three internal courts. The two major contracting firms C-S Issue No. 199, May '69) is first in the Environmental were A. V. Jennings Industries (Aust.) Ltd. and John category. The Awards Committee praised the imagina- Holland (Constructions) Pty. Ltd. The Industrial cate- tively laid out exterior pools on a confined site and the gory was won by architects Eggleston Macdonald and "dramatic enclosure" of the two indoor pools which Secomb for their B.H.P. Melbourne Research Labora- has a finely divided glass wall which contrasts with tories in the suburb of Clayton. Illustrated is this the chunky shapes and forms of its service and cir- independent first stage of a larger development com- culation structures illustrated: Architects: Kevin plex. The Awards Committee considered it well con- Borland and Daryl Jackson. Builder: A. R. P. Crow & ceived and well executed, lacking industrial faults Sons Pty. Ltd. The illustration of the Collins St. facade shows the merits of its proportions. The greatest excitement for the layman visitor is to observe and hear the hub-bub and shouting from the cantilevered visitors' gallery overlooking the trading floor activities and the ever- changing wall pattern of chalked figures. Structural Engineer: John Connell & Associates. Principal Con- tractor: Hansen and Yuncken Pty. Ltd. Electrical and Mechanical: Buchan, Laird and Buchan Pty. Ltd. Quantity Surveyor: Wolferstan Trower and Partners. Photo: Ian McKenzie In the Retail category the Awards Committee was im- pressed by the Southland Shopping Centre, Chelten- ham, as a building type peculiar to the 20th century as it must cater for motorised traffic rather than for the shopper arriving and leaving on foot or by estab- lished railway lines and other forms of 19th century orientated public transport. It is the car-user shopper that has created the need for retailing with facilities at this scale outside the old commercial centre, or did the retailer simply see the sprawl, the shift of population to outer suburban living, a static non-growth of public transport and a high rate of individual car ownership? The retailer then supplied this kind of retail complex and by all means at his disposal per- suaded the car-shopper to use it? The public response has marked such building types as a great success. Conditions like this have put into the lap of architects engaged to design a great complexity of needs and persuasions a brief to design for popular taste. In addition the necessary vast acreage of car-parking asphalt and kerbing and signs and the air-conditioned collection of building at the centre of the site makes the designer's task to create a good environment very difficult. The design of this centre by architects Tomp- kins, Shaw and Evans establishes a high standard. The central generally reinforced concrete structure is spread low over three levels with 150,000 sq. ft. coping Photo: John Squire with a 3-level department store, a junior department Stock Exchange House in Collins Street, Melbourne, store, supermarket, 59 other shops, 9 professional was first in the Urban category. Designed by architects suites, an auditorium and roof garden. Centred on 25i Buchan, Laird & Buchan Pty. Ltd. it is an indication acres the building is fully enclosed and fully air- that the inheritors of the International Style amongst conditioned. The long low terraced tiers are as viable Melbourne's city office block architects are now con- as F.L.W.'s organic forms and setting in a given cerned with an outer skin of glazed precast concrete topography. The pedestrian's traffic and his car and panels on external walls, having abandoned the glass the building are connected on two levels and isolated curtain wall. The complex functions of the A.N.Z. Bank from a service truckway. Some ceramic murals Head Office and banking chambers and the Stock and sculpture entertain the potential purchaser Exchange of Melbourne are embraced in two clear along the way. Southland was first in the Retail cate- cut towers, a 26-storey steel framed bank offices block gory. Structural Engineers: J. L. & E. M. Daly. Civil to Collins St. and a 9-storey low rise post-tensioned Engineers (site works): L. T. Frazer & Associates. Land- reinforced concrete block Stock Exchange with a scape: R. Skerrit. Electrical and Mechanical: Crooks, 9,000 square ft. columnless trading floor three stories Michell, Peacock and Stewart. Quantity Surveyor: high. This is achieved by walled-in concrete arches Wolferstan, Trower and Partners. Builder: Lewis Con- springing from the trading floor level terminating at structions Co. Pty. Ltd. As the awards range over a roof level and suspending from these the five floors number of categories so do these buildings range over over the trading area. Both tower blocks are clad a number of sometimes very different architectural externally with pre-cast reconstructed Harcourt granite principles, but with one thing in common — excellent curtain wall panels. Due to a fall across a long narrow quality. site the main public access ways in the lower floors 11 The 19-storey A.M.P. building in Adelaide (C-S Issue are split to street frontages and connected by escala- No. 193, Nov. 1968) won its contractors Hansen Yuncken tors. Bronze-green carpet and wall facings of blue-grey (S.A.) Pty. Ltd. an award for the most outstanding Italian marble with russet lines meandering through constructional project in Australia in the past 10 years. it and some natural timber finishes to a circular bank- The award was sponsored by the International Federa- ing chamber give warmth to the cool comfort and pre- tion of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors' Associa- cisely formed and detailed air-conditioned interiors. tions who recently held a convention in Adelaide. The population of Canberra reached 117,130 on March 31st, not including 1,300 diplomats and their families. The Canberra growth is almost 1,000 people per month and is mainly concentrating in the two satellite districts of Woden and Belconnen. ¶ The "Financial Review" 17.4.69 has optimistically estimated Australia's population at 23 million by the year 2000, and used this figure as a basis for discussing N.S.W. planning and industrial development of the future. This figure takes no account of possible (likely?) further drastic increases due to spillage from the rest of the world's estimated 6,000 million. The discussion centres around the theme of employment opportunities and the establishment of industries to provide them. There is no real cause for optimism here — by the year 2000 the problem will be not how to keep people employed but rather how to feed a largely unemploy- able population and how to stop them dying from the sheer boredom of too much leisure, unless of course we are prepared to channel the national workforce into producing sufficient food to feed the starving millions who do not live in the Lucky Country.
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